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Syphon units anchored to someone elses pos causes POS to attack
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Quid Sin
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-02-03 13:42:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Quid Sin
Hey all quick question.

I encountered a GEWN moon mining pos in a low sec or null sec system with 2x siphoning units anchored near it. The units belonged to some random non goon corp (or so I thought).

Anyway I decloaked and flew around for 5 mins and no sign of pos attacking me and with the siphon units being non goon I then decided to shoot them.

4 volleys or so and a minute or two later the POS opened fired and destroyed me. What kind of mechanics are these ? As far as I aware the POS wasn't attacking me and I did not pose a threat to it nor did I attack it.

So Siphon units when anchored against somebody else's pos are treated by the pos as friendly structures and you can't attack them ?
Tialano Utrigas
Running with Dogs
Out of the Blue.
#2 - 2014-02-03 13:49:02 UTC
Sounds like the POS is only set to fire when a player commits an aggressive action within its vacinity. Cant remember what its actualy called though.
Keno Skir
#3 - 2014-02-03 14:15:47 UTC
^ That sounds reasonable. You can set the POS to engage any player who's security status drops near it.

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Quid Sin
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-02-03 14:59:43 UTC
Sec status never dropped though and its lame that aggression can flag you in a 0.1 system when your trying to do the pos owner a favour. Cool
Praxis Ginimic
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-02-03 17:16:46 UTC
I was under the impression that any one could scoop from a siphon. Why would you open fire? Why not just loot them?
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#6 - 2014-02-03 21:01:59 UTC
1) siphons cant be scooped

2) anyone can take form this, this will not flag you (or shouldn't)

3) the pos is set to "Attack if aggression" What this means is he pos will fire on ANY act of aggression, being shooting the pos, shooting someone or something near it, even shooting a corp mate or dueling near it will cause it to fire. I have no idea if this si still true, but in the old days if this was not set the pos would ignore anyone firing on it. I had this happen once when an old corp mate tried to awox the pos and got locked out, he deced to shoot it, and well that option was unchecked so the pos went about its mery way, I had to fly over there and recheck it after driving the ex corp mate off and trying to send him to a station (I seriously hate that you can't kick until the guy is docked... but I digress)

4) Word of caution, never fire near a pos unless you want to blow it up.

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